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THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS WERE AFRICANS....
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"Janey McAdams" <[email protected]>
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Why is it so confusing that statues in Africa are of Africans???
Why does this have to proven over and over again????
Why is it not understood Kemet (Egypt) is in Africa???
Why are these facts being debated??? Ironic isn't it???
This shows the African people just how important you are. Your
history is being stolen right under your eyes in the open as you
and the world watches...The Ancient Egyptians were
Africans...GOD BLESS AFRICA AND HER FRUIT...
1-800-788-CLEGG
Legrand H. Clegg II, Editor & Publisher *Volume I, Edition III,
February 1997, Featuring: ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
by Cheikh Anta Diop
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Comments From the Publisher
"NET NOTES"
There was and is wide mingling of the blood of all races in Africa,
but this is consistent with the general thesis that Africa is
predominantly the land of the Negroes and Negroid peoples, just
as Europe is a land of Caucasoids and Asia of Mongoloids. We
may give up entirely, if we wish, the whole attempt to delimit
races, but we cannot, if we are sane, divide the world into whites,
yellows, and blacks, and then call blacks white.
W.E.B. DuBois, The world and Africa:
An Inquiry into the part which Africa has played in world history.
International Publishers, New York, 1961, p. 119
We would like to inform our readers that a remarkable discovery
has taken place in the "Queen's Chamber" of the Great Pyramid!
According to a report published on the Internet on December 1,
1996, by Robert Hancock, British author of the best selling books,
"The Sign and the Seal" and "Fingerprints of the Gods," the
Ganten brink experiment1 was conducted in the Great Pyramid on
October 20, 1996. This project entailed an exploration of the
narrow passage leading up from the southern shaft of the
"Queen's Chamber" in the Great Pyramid. For several years,
Egyptologists have known that a door exists at the upper end of
the "Queen's Chamber," but until October 20, no one had
penetrated it. Here, then, are the words of Hancock regarding the
events of that date:
"At the end of the ascending passage, 8 inches square, leading
from inside the Great Pyramid's 'Queen's Chamber' is a small
'door' with two metal 'handles.' On October 20, 1996, Dr. El Bas
and two assistants sent a fiber optic camera lens through a flaw
in this door. What was allegedly found was a 2 meter by 1.5
meter chamber inside of which was a statue. The statue seemed
to be in the image of a black male, holding an ankh in one hand.
On the opposing wall of this chamber was a round shaped
passage leading out."2 (Emphasis added)
While citing three reliable sources for this report, Hancock
nonetheless cautions that it has not been completely verified.
Less restrained is American author and astronomer Richard
Hoagland. Speaking on Art Bell's early morning nationwide talk
show (KABC radio) on December 20, 1996, Hoagland devoted a
considerable amount of time to a discussion of the same report
and defended it with confidence. He also noted that, after the
information leaked out, one of the sources was immediately fired
and subjected to other severe discipline.3
We cite this report because, if true, it is an example, among
many, of revolutionary discovery made in secrecy by a group of
specialists who may or may not reveal the total truth about what
they have found. Fortunately, because a number of laymen,
academicians
and
scientists
have
been
closely
following
developments on the Giza plateau for several years, it was
difficult for officials to suppress this experiment. Nevertheless, as
of this writing no major media have published information on this
discovery.
As Afrocentrists we stand in awe wondering how many other
statues of Black males, and females for that matter, have been
found in Egyptian archaeological sites and then hidden from
public view?
This recent discovery serves as a perfect segue into our topic for
February, Black History Month: "The 'racial' origin of the Ancient
Egyptian people." As we noted in the December issue of MAAT,
every major newspaper and magazine in the nation and much of
academe
have
attacked
Africentrists
as
pseudoscientists.
Especially scorned have been those scholars who claim that the
Ancient Egyptians were Black Africans.
Since the overwhelming majority of the critics of Africentrism
have engaged in nothing more than shadow boxing (never
providing their opponents with an opportunity to respond to their
assaults), we think a true debate is long overdue. Therefore this
issue of MAAT has been exclusively devoted to a reprinting of an
article
written
by
the
late
Senegalese
nuclear
physicist,
anthropologist, Egyptologist, linguist and historian, Cheikh Anta
Diop. Entitled "Origin of The Ancient Egyptians," the article was
first published in UNESCO, General History of Africa, vol 2,
Ancient Civilizations of Africa. Edited/translated by G. Mokhtar.
Copyright
(c)
1980
UNESCO.4
This
article
provides
a
comprehensive summary of the Africentric position on the race of
the Ancient Egyptians.
While the MAAT newsletter invites a full spectrum of responses to
this subject, we are nevertheless setting two ground rules as
fundamental requirements for a serious, civil and objective
discussion or debate:
It must be recognized that Egypt is and always has been on the
continent of Africa. References to this country as a part of the
Middle East, Near East, Mediterranean or even the Fertile
Crescent, to the exclusion of its location in Africa, is a blatant,
racist distortion.
The color black cannot be defined as white. The only reasonable
definition of the Black race is the following provided by Diop:
"There are two variants of the black race: (a) straight-haired,
represented in Asia by the Dravidians and in Africa by the
Nubians and the Tubbou or Tedda, all three with jet- black skins;
(b) the kinky-haired blacks of the Equatorial regions."5
We flatly reject the specious reasoning of the early Egyptologist J.
J. Champollion-Figeac and modern anthropologists, who insist
that "[t]he two physical traits of black skin and kinky hair are not
enough to stamp a race as negro. . ."6 They then proceed to
transfer some of the blackest people in the world to the white
race, if the blacks in question are the progenitors of an advanced
civilization. If black skin is insufficient to qualify one for inclusion
in the black race, then, what on earth is!?
The brilliant African American historian W.E.B. DuBois, recognized
the contempt that the Western academic establishment has had
for Black people and addressed it nearly 60 years ago:
"The Negro has long been the clown of history; the football of
anthropology; and the slave of industry. I am trying to show here
why these attitudes can no longer be maintained. I realize that
the truth of history lies not in the mouths of partisans but rather
in the calm Science that sits between. Her cause I seek t serve,
and wherever I fail, I am at least paying Truth the respect of
earnest effort."7
We welcome you to join us as truth seekers.
Please Now Read
ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
by Cheikh Anta Diop
The feature article in the March issue of MAAT will be "New
Discoveries On The Giza Plateau: What are the Implications For
Black People?"
*Legrand H. Clegg II is an attorney, historian and producer of the
award-winning videotape, "When Black Men Ruled The World:
Egypt During The Golden Age."
(To order the videotape, please call 1-800-788-CLEGG)
Footnotes
Rudolf Gantenbrink, a German robotics engineer, built a robot to
climb the southern shaft of the "Queen's Chamber." Graham
Hancock, Fingerprints of The Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost
Civilization, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1995, p. 321. Graham
Hancock, "Newsflash from Giza as of December 1, 1996,"
http://www.anw.com/hancock/updates.htm.
http://www.artbell.com
Permission for reprinting the article was granted by the University
of California Press. Quoted in "Origin of The Ancient Egyptians,"
MAAT Newsletter, February, 1977, p. 12.Ibid,p. 18. W.E.B.
DuBois, Black Folk: Then and Now, New York [First edition, 1939]
Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited, Millwood, N,Y. 1975, p. IX.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------* Legrand H. Clegg II is an attorney, historian and producer of
the award-winning videotape, "When Black Men Ruled The World:
Egypt During The Golden Age."
(To order the videotape, please call 1-800-788-CLEGG)
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